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Author Alexander, Thomas G

Title Brigham Young, the Quorum of the Twelve, and the Latter-Day Saint Investigation of the Mountain Meadows Massacre : Arrington Lecture No. Twelve
Published Logan : Utah State University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (49 pages)
Series Arrington Lecture
Arrington Lecture
Contents Cover; Copyright; Introduction; Brigham Young, The Quorum of the Twelve, and the Latter-day Saint Investigation of the Mountain Meadows Massacre; Notes; Back Cover
Summary On September 11, 1857, a wagon train of emigrants passing through the Utah Territory on their way to California were massacred at Mountain Meadows. Although today??s historians agree that the principal perpetrators were members of the Mormon militia in southern Utah, how much the central Mormon leadership, especially Brigham Young at the top, knew about the massacre, when and how they learned about it, and the extent of a cover up afterward are still matters of controversy and debate. In this 12th volume of the Arrington Lecture Series, Thomas Alexander (Lemuel Redd Professor of Western Ameri
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SUBJECT Young, Brigham, 1801-1877
Subject Mountain Meadows Massacre, Utah, 1857 -- Apostles -- Utah
Latter Day Saint churches -- History
Latter Day Saint churches.
Mormonism.
Apostles
Mormon Church
Utah
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780874216875
0874216877